PERSONS IN NEWS – NOVEMBER 2015
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Appointments
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Captain
Swaminathan
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New
commanding officer of INS Vikramaditya
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Justice
T. S. Thakur
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43rd
Chief Justice of India
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Raghuram
Rajan
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Elected
as Vice - Chairman on BIS (Bank of International Settlements)
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Ms.
Marzieh Afkham
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Iran's
first Woman Ambassador since 1979 Revolution
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Jayant
Krishna
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Interim
CEO of NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation)
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Justice
A. P. Shah
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Ethics
officer (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for 1
year tenure
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Dr. Subir
Gokaran, Economist (former Deputy Governor of RBI)
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Appointed
as Executive Director representing the Indian Constituency (India,
Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) at the International Monetary Fund
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Filippo
Grandi
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UN
refugee chief
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Kalyani
Kaul
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Indian-origin
barrister; sworn-in as Circuit Judge in the UK
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Syed
Akbaruddin
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Permanent
Representative of India to UN
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Sandeep
Girotra
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Head
of India, as part of the planned combination of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent
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Vinay
Nambiar
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SpiceJet’s
UAE country head
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Kiren
Rijiju
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Conferred
with Disaster Risk Reduction Asia Champion honour by UN
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Harshavardhan
Neotia
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President
of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)
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Yusuf
Hamied
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High-level
panel on health technology innovation
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Sunil
Kanoria
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President,
ASSOCHAM
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Anil
Wadhwa
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Next
Ambassador of India to the Republic of Italy
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Pankaj
Saran
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Next
Ambassador of India to the Republic of Russia
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Harsh
Vardhan Shringla
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Next
Ambassador of India to the Republic of Bangladesh
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Patricia
Janet Scotland
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Sixth
Secretary General of Commonwealth of Nations; first woman to hold this post
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Rajesh
Lakhoni
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New
Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu
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Deaths
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Ossie Fernandes
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Noted
Human Rights Activist
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Yitzhak Navon
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Former
Prime Minister, Israel
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Saeed Jaffrey
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Veteran
Hindi film actor
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Ashok Singhal
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VHP
leader
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Kamala Laxman
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Noted
Children’s Book Writer and wife of cartoonist R. K. Laxman
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Sankaran Nair
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Former
Chief of RAW
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Hemendra Narain
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Journalist
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R. K. Trivedi
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Former
Governor of Gujarat and former CEC; first person to introduce - Voter ID
cards in Indian Elections
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Madhav Chari
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Jazz
Pianist
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Noboru Karashima
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Eminent
Japanese Historian
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Joe Marston
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Australian
Football icon
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